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Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl - How Do I Look? (Paperback)
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Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl - How Do I Look? (Paperback)
Series: Sexualities in Society
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Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from
shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her
own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical
artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those
who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and
discussions around what has been termed 'sexualisation' and 'the
gaze'. An account of the experience of being 'looked at', the book
raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of
the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it,
and what this means for feminism and the act of looking. An
embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing
Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by
feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and
that women's bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture,
raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies -
those of glamorous women on display - to become scapegoats for our
deeper anxieties about consumerism.
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